Swearing. Why?

I suspect my 7yo practices saying fuck when I'm not about what with him now being obsessed with it.

Orchard I don't think dragons can actually fly. Their wings look ornamental to me. I imagine they stomp about the land eating grass like cows

I actually swear less on here than in rl...as I know it can come across the wrong way when you can't tell if someone's joking etc.

Would much rather be called a cunt than a yoni though tbh...

You'd probably be surprised, MakingAnotherList.

I like swearing. It's one of my favourite things about MN.

Tee2072 They are 6 and 8. I am positive that they don't swear when I'm not around.

Isn't it a step up from rare bat guano in terms of valuble-shit? I believe it is you know

Zombie believes that dragon shit is highly prized by some folk. It reputedly has magical properties, doesn't it?

I think it's a flock? They have wings and shit don't they?

And I can't believe we got so far in this thread without an ODFOD.

Orchard is that a herd of 's you have there?

If your DC are old enough to read chances are they will have come across swearing before. DS1 has just learned the f word as we refer to it and the other week DH said something was fucking ridiculous and DS1 was all daddy said the F word. Then his nanna taught him how to spell it as 'if he can say it he should be able to spell it'

he is 7 and knows you can't go about saying fuck all over the place, but he knows it exists and that his father occasionally uses it!

Oooh, we've got a fucking dragon!

Though if dragons did fuck, maybe we'd see more of them. Not so sure that would be a good thing. Good job they appear to be even worse at it than giant pandas.

Nope....still doesn't feel as good as swearing. Sorry OP

Oh yes, also stereotyping navvies as drunken, very offensive indeed.

Really fucking offensive in fact.

Just for curiosity sake, MakingAnotherList, how old are your children and do you think they don't swear when you're not around?

ohh ffffffiddlesticks! look what i've done.

i do of course mean drunken navvys

I rarely swear in real life and never have online. I don't think that makes me better than anybody else. I certainly don't look down on those that do swear. I do wish, however, that there wasn't as much of it on mumsnet. I have had to quickly close the app/window many times when my daughters come and sit next to me and I'm reading something on here.
I know that the solution is to only use mumsnet when they are in bed or at school, but sometimes I like to sit and read for 5 minutes.

are drunken naccys not allowed on MN?

yay a sniffy sweary thread and a fab. I obv only commented so I could use the though. You never know when a will come along again.

fwiw I think there is less swearing now than there used to be and I rarely see gratuitous swearing

I don't like violent films so I don't watch them.

If you don't like swearing, don't come on Mumsnet.

Just out if interest, what does one have to do to be called an atrocious cunt?

Op

I find the generalisation that navvies swear quite offensive. They were the heroes of many transformative civil engineering projects still in existence today. They died in their hundreds, poorly paid in terrible working conditions.

Now troopers and fish wives on the other hand...

My favourite swear word is Cunt actually.

It means so many different things and is so wonderfully expressive.

I don't sound like a navvy though.

You are of course allowed to be offended by the same words a black person is offended by. What a ridiculous comment OP!

It doesn't bother me.

I think you have to take it in context too.

Depending on the situation, yes I do swear in RL, I wouldn't swear while speaking to my childs teacher for example as it would be inappropriate to be so informal. But in relaxed company and in the right context, yes I would and I do...often.